New York Times Staffer Counters Reports That Abramson Firing Was Over Pay or Gender

The still unfolding story of Jill Abramson's dismissal from her post as Executive Editor at the New York Times took another turn on Sunday when one of the paper's reporters, Ravi Somaiya, dished out a series of tweets that refute the narrative that her firing was over pay issues related to sexism.

Somaiya, who has been tasked with writing the New York Times' own account of the high profile departure, used his Twitter account to answer some of the lingering questions being asked by media professionals and the general public alike

"Many have asked why lack of voices from NYT/examples of Jill's management style. I will try to answer, based on conversations this week," wrote Somaiya, in the first of a series of tweets on the subject Read more...